Surprise Quotes

They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

And with the right mentor, don’t be afraid to expose your vulnerabilities. Admit you don’t know what you don’t know. When you acknowledge your weaknesses and ask for advice, you’ll be surprised how much others will help.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.

We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn’t it comforting to know God isn’t ever broken? He isn’t ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next.

People are so blind to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self…I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.